Saudi Arabia's Intra Defense Technologies hopes that its indigenous UAV programs will play a key role in helping the country to achieve its ambitious target of localizing 50 percent of government military spending as part of its wider Vision 2030 effort to diversify the economy and grow non-oil revenues. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has prioritized the localization of defense procurement, vowing that there should be “no arms deals without local content” and favoring the procurement of locally-designed and produced equipment.
Unmanned aerial systems represent a useful and achievable opportunity for local design, development, and production, and Intra already operates a range of unmanned platforms, while providing technical and training services in support of all unmanned products in use in Saudi Arabia. The company has now turned its attention to the design and production of UAV designs, and two of them were on show at the recent World Defense Show held in Riyadh.
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